Buying the Cambridge, England-based firm, whose software searches unstructured data like e-mails, phone calls and tweets that do not fit into traditional databases, was one of a raft of surprise radical reforms announced by HP’s Apotheker in August

Cloud storage promises several advantages while addressing information explosion: pay for only the storage used, near real-time scalability, access to data from any location, and freedom from worrying about protecting and managing data stored in the cloud